Wednesday, August 2, 2017

THE GOSSIP: This week in tech

Wisconsin workers embedded with microchips
A local firm here made good today on its vow to embed employees with microchips.
Sporting "I Got Chipped" T-shirts, some 40 workers at Three Square Market, a firm that makes cafeteria kiosks aimed at replacing vending machines, got tiny rice-sized microchips embedded in their hands.

Technology and more human eyeballs are helping YouTube more quickly find and remove terrorist content from the video-sharing site.
Last month, YouTube said it was initiating a multipronged strategy to combat how extremist groups including ISIS use video on the site to recruit and radicalize prospective terrorists.

Relax, there is no rogue artificial intelligence system shut down by Facebook because it was trying to avoid communicating with humans.
In June, Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research unit started an experiment attempting to train bots to negotiate.